One-minute Chocolate Cake

A great and insanely industrious blogger Henrietta Watson of All About Writing and More has offered a daily prompt: Romance. I thought this post was quite fitting, and anyway, I don’t know anything more romantic than Gypsy music. Except the romantic attention of one’s spouse, of course…

Who do you think bakes a cake for my birthday? You guessed it right! Not that my husband can’t cook or bake. He can, and he likes to do it. It’s all my fault – I dread cleaning up after his forays into my kitchen. So while he was at work, I whipped up a little cake for just the two of us. Even though it is sort of a significant date, I am still not up to celebrating, so I didn’t feel like spending more than a minute on it. Well, two minutes, if you count the frosting. However, I am very strict about My Own Rules of Dessert (please click here), so it must be chocolate, and the more chocolate, the better!

For my husband’s sake, I try to limit gluten as much as possible. So for this cake, I use whole spelt flour, light brown sugar…